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The List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) has been updated to reflect changed made in December 2015. For additional information on the LEIE and to access this updated information, click here.

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One of the benefits of being a member of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) is their daily e-mail publication, Provider Daily. Provider Daily is a daily compilation of state and national news designed to keep members abreast of developments impacting long term care professionals. To see the latest on-line version of Provider Daily, click here.

Providers do not automatically receive Provider Daily, but can request to receive it by sending an e-mail request to Katherine Merullo at kmerullo@ahca.org.

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Thank you to all members that already submitted photographs and information to help celebrate NCHCFA’s 60th Anniversary throughout 2015. The Association is also creating a brief video commemorating NCHCFA’s history since 1955. The video will be shown at the Annual Business Meeting on Monday, February 22nd during the 2016 Annual Convention & Expo. If you have any historically significant photographs you would like to be considered for the video please submit them today! The deadline to submit photographs is Friday, January 15th.

Please send photographs to:

NCHCFA
Attn: Allison Boyette
5109 Bur Oak Circle
Raleigh, NC 27612
allisonb@nchcfa.org

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The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would like to thank our 2016 Gold Convention Hosts for supporting the upcoming Annual Convention & Expo – The Art of Caring. Be sure to visit them at the booths on Tuesday, February 23rd during Expo 2016 – The Art of Patriotism.

Blue Ridge Pharmacy – Booths 531 & 632
Legacy Consultant Pharmacy – Booth 520
Medipack Pharmacy – Booths 213 & 215
NH Medical Services – Booths 417 & 516
Southern Pharmacy – Booths 501 & 503

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Register today for the NCHCFA Annual Convention and Trade Show, The Art of Caring, February 21-24, 2016 at the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Seasons/Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC! Call the Sheraton at (800) 242-6556 to make your room reservation. Identify that you are with “NC Health Care Facilities Association 2016 Convention” to receive the group discounted rate. Don’t miss the opportunity to earn up to 15.5 hours of educational credit for North Carolina Nursing Home Administrators, as well as up to 14.5 hours of Nursing CE credit! The advanced registration deadline is Friday, February 5th. To obtain an additional brochure visit the Member Center of the Association’s Web site at http://www.NursingHomesNC.com.

Take a break with colleagues for lunch on Monday, February 22nd and get ready to be entertained and laugh out loud with the Capitol Steps! The Capitol Steps, a Washington DC based comedy troupe, began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. The Capitol Steps have been a Washington, DC institution for over thirty years, providing a unique blend of musical and political comedy to our Nation’s Capital and more. Their performance is constantly changing, strenuously bi-partisan, and includes songs about everything in the news. The show consists of tasteful lampooning guaranteed to leave both sides of the political spectrum laughing! Just to name a few, they have appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, Nightline, CNN’s Inside Politics, and dozens of times on All Things Considered. Make plans today to join your colleagues on Monday, February 22, 2016 for a special treat!

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Alliant Quality wants to encourage SNFs to keep signing up for the National Collaborative – or SPACE. Alliant recommends having as much time as possible to get started on QAPI improvement work and improving facility quality measures in a systems approach to improve their five star and composite scores.

Alliant Quality is the Medicare Quality Innovation Network (QIN)-Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for North Carolina. Under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Alliant Quality invites your nursing home to participate in a collaborative designed to ensure that every nursing home resident receives the highest quality of care.

The Collaborative offers an exciting opportunity to learn from high performing nursing homes regarding their processes as they pertain to consistent/permanent staff assignment, teamwork and communications, leadership, regulatory compliance, clinical models, and quality of life indicators. The Collaborative aligns national nursing home quality initiatives and partnerships such as the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes Campaign, The Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI). Targeted focus areas will include increasing mobility, decreasing unnecessary use of antipsychotics in residents with dementia, decreasing potentially avoidable hospitalizations and decreasing healthcare acquired infections and conditions.

When ready to register, click here for the Participation Agreement and fax or e-mail it back to Lisa Klemis. For more details, e-mail Jennifer Brock at Jennifer.Brock@area-F.hcqis.org or call (678) 527-3417.

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Election of officers and members of the Board of Directors will be conducted on Monday, February 22nd, during NCHCFA’s Business Meeting. The business meeting will be held in conjunction with NCHCFA’s 2016 annual Convention in Greensboro. All persons seeking an office or a position on the Board of Directors should have their name submitted to the Nominating Committee by Friday, February 12th. The nomination must be submitted in writing or e-mailed and include the candidate’s full name, the office being sought and the facility or company of employment. Please mail or e-mail the information to the attention of:

By Mail:

Nominating Committee
North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association
5109 Bur Oak Circle
Raleigh, NC 27612

By Email:

Karen Lennon, NCHCFA, karenl@nchcfa.org

Nominating Committee: David Kidder (Chair), Cheryl Clapp-Coleman and Kevin Cox.

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High-quality clinical care comes from high-quality education. Prove the value of your staff development program with help from author and staff development expert Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, in this new groundbreaking book. Dr. Avillion offers clear guidance to help you put your program’s worth into quantifiable terms and align staff development with your organization’s goals. Educators of all levels will be able to evaluate the effect of training on retention, staff competency, and patient outcomes.

To order, visit http://www.AHCApublications.org or call (800) 321-0343.

Product # 8333
AHCA Members (on-line price) $99.00

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This DVD, Mobility and Safe Movement of the Elderly, Improving Your Skills to Prevent Injuries and Reduce Falls, by Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L., FOTA, Dementia Care & Training Specialist, was developed in conjunction with Wake Allied Health Education Center, Durham Technical Community College and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Office of Information Systems. The content is formatted in separate segments in order to customize the delivery of content to your learning objective. Handouts developed by Teepa accompany each video and may be reproduced. To order, e-mail your request to Donna Snyder at donnas@nchcfa.org. The price is $35.00 (tax and shipping included).

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Poignant moments unfold at a preschool in a retirement home

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/living/preschool-nursing-home-seattle

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The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.

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